That’s horrible. I remember when it was stopped. I owned some ivory jewelry at the time. I felt so awful when I heard about how ivory is taken, I actually made a memorial in my yard, buried the ivory jewelry and said a prayer to be forgiven for owning it in the first place. This practice just cannot be re-kindled.

Minnow, sweetie, I’m not sure. We can support the causes that are helping the elephants, like the World Wildlife Fund or the Biogems section of the National Resource Council. If - WHEN - I get rich, OMG am I going to send these groups tons of money. I already send what I can, but it’s meager.

Another thing we can do is join an Internet "Cause" like Care2MakeADifference (www.care2.com) or other sites. They're free to join, they just need the people. Other sites for "causes" can be found on my [Link Removed] site.

My friend who told me about this is saving up to go to Africa with a group of other elephant lovers, but that’s a while in the future because of the air fare etc.

I do believe that small actions done consistently work almost as well as huge dictates done once in a while.

Oh - and Chinadoll, please don’t think it’s just your part of the world. Americans can’t seem to understand that fur coats come from the fur of once-live animals. It’s a world-wide problem, not a specifically one country problem.